Local computer shows are usually havens for hardware hackers looking for bargain basement equipment, but at the show I attended last week, some of the biggest crowds were around tables piled high with ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...